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[jay]

Someone has finally noticed that we're talking online to the Space Station through a VPN. (Looks at VPN application, sitting on my desk here at work...)

I remember fierce battles 10 years ago with the Apollo-era old guard as to why we needed network capability *at all* on the Station... (smiles quietly).

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Quiet smiles

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

brian when else do you smile quietly? And what does a quiet smile represent to you?

Singed a curious mind

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The scary thing about the story you link to is the incident in which denial-of-service attacks threatened astronauts' well-being. The guys who hacked the shuttle must be idiot savants smart enough to hack the system but too stupid to realize why they shouldn't or else they were psychopathic and didn't care. Sort of like people who hack into hospital systems.

[johno.livejournal.com]

This is one of those subtly geeky things that I've told some folks and gotten a "so what" from some and a "really cool" from others.